We need context. Otherwise people will keep throwing words at the wall at random. Which is not helping anyone, least of all yourself. We try to provide clear answers to clear questions. And we clearly fail at that when you get ten answers within a couple hours, some of which can't even make their mind up and are really, in turn, ten separate answers in their own right.
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RegDwigнt♦Dec 3 '12 at 10:11

There is a defined term for this concept. A valid 'single-word request' question. See my answer. Voting to re-open.
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KrisDec 3 '12 at 10:14

I've checked the FAQ and this type of questions appears to be the first recommended point to ask on this site. Some of the answers are excellent quality and the question has 7 upvotes and two favs but the moderators STILL think it's "not good enough".
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SF.Dec 6 '12 at 1:11

Since ratiocinate has 0 mentions, what brought you to introduce that word?
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Jeff FerlandDec 3 '12 at 6:31

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@JeffFerland: Elementary! 3nafish has picked out words that he thought might be a good fit (perhaps with a thesaurus?), and then looked for those words in Doyle's work. You couldn't deduce that? ;^) By the way, I'm surprised that observe (39 times) was left of this list. Clearly, Holmes felt that observing (as opposed to just seeing) was an important element of his success.
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J.R.Dec 3 '12 at 10:05

It is just that none of these can be applied exclusively and specifically as the verb required in OP's context.
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KrisDec 5 '12 at 7:55

@Kris: Perhaps not, but where did the O.P. specify "exclusively and specifically"? (I see "more or less".) Depending on the context, a couple of these might work just fine – more or less. I thought ratiocinate was a particularly good candidate.
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J.R.Dec 5 '12 at 23:34

Crime reconstruction or crime scene reconstruction is the forensic science discipline in which one gains "explicit knowledge of the series of events that surround the commission of a crime using deductive and inductive reasoning, physical evidence, scientific methods, and their interrelationships.

Crime scene reconstruction has been described as putting together a jigsaw puzzle but doing so without access to the box top; ...(Wikipedia)

[emphasis mine]

reconstruction (Oxford Dictionaries)
(1 b) [count noun] an impression, model, or re-enactment of a past event formed from the available evidence:a reconstruction of the accident would be staged to try to discover the cause of the tragedy

"And then there's this: If 99% of the man who professed cluelessness
in defense of their misogyny were actually just clueless, 99% of the
"garsh, misogyny?!" conversations would dénouement with a grateful
thank you for feminist enlightenment, instead of snarling flounces
punctuated with accusations of man-hating and grievances about
unwelcoming tones."

then that word might just fit what you're looking for. Of course, denouements are after the climax of story.